Dark Chocolate
Eating dark chocolate can help reduce anxiety and improve symptoms of clinical depression. People who ate dark chocolate in two 24-hour periods had 70% reduced odds of reporting depressive symptoms than those who did not eat chocolate. However, milk chocolate did not produce the same effect.When we're down or stressed, a hit of that sweet stuff can make us feel better. Previous studies have shown that
chocolate increases serotonin levels in the brain, the same mood-enhancing chemical that the SSRIs, a widely used type of
antidepressant, work on.
